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If god thy master and lord be dishonoured christ thy saviour and redeemer be robbed, the simple people thy brethren be murdered (as in deed spiritually at these be done in and by the mass) why dost thou dissemble as though christ were honoured, god were served, thy brethren were edified? Is not this deep dissimulation, ⟨image 34⟩is not this lake of love to god & his glory, is not this lack of love to thy brethren and to there salvation, and is not this iniquity? for every sin is iniquity. But where iniquity hath ease & rest in the hart there god will not receive the prayer, how will he hear thy prayer then thou hypocrite, dissembler with god and man, mass gospeller. But thou keepest still thy pew & holdest not up thy hands? as though none were papist is but such as knock & hold up their hands: as though all men at the sacring time look on thee what thou only do•st, as though he did eat no part of a pudding which eateth of both the ends of it, but tasteth not of the middest of it Is the holding up of the hands so great a matter with you now? what I had thought this external work or behaviour had bin nothing if that the spirit had been right? Is the holding up of the hand• at the sacring time more then the presence of thy body at all the hole mass? is there nothing else a mice in the mass but the adoration of the sacrament? If thou wouldest men should know that thou doest disallow it, why comest thou to it? what doest thou there? doest not thou go to the mass that ⟨image 35⟩the magistrate might know that thou art of his religion, a good obedient subject to the devilish laws. Thus playest thou wily beguile thy self. Tell me if thy servant should goo with thieves to rob thy house with out gainsaying or doing to them, wouldest thou have him excused? And doest thou think that god will not be angry with yt that goest with thieves to rob him of his true seruice & honore by the Mass? Thy servant might have an excuse to say if he should have reproved them for their fact and denied to have goon with them it could not have holyē, but cast him away for he had no help. But such excuse haste thou none for god can deliver and help the out of the hands of all thine adversaries.¹ Read the story of Jeroboam, whether he was able to hurt the man of god reproving his fact? And god is the same god now. The standing of the .iii.